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Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Going Gluten Free





I recently made a decision to try gluten free food to see if it made me feel any better.  I am a sufferer of migraines and constant tummy upsets, and after trying different things over the years, it was time to give this a go.
Now I was pretty excited to do something different, it gets you out of the hum drum of life.  I didn't find it difficult as it is a lot of healthy eating which I already did but I had to change a lot of dressings and sauces as a lot of these have gluten in them.  After looking around at different shops, I was quite surprised to see the number of things I could get.  Yes it is a little more expensive but i found myself getting interested in food all over again.  I was planning in advance what I would eat and made sure I had plenty of left overs to take to work the next day for lunch.  This helps out a lot.  There are so many great foods you can still have such as rice, potatoes and bread (gluten free of course).  I have a new love which is quinoa.  So yummy to have mixed through your salad or to have on its own with some roasted sweet potaoe and pumpkin..
I have now been gluten free for just over a month and I have to say I love it.  I found that it wasn't helping my stomach problems at first, but I am now feeling a lot better.  I will continue monitoring myself to see if it comes back again.  One major highlight for me is that I'm not fighting my headaches as much as i used to.  In between my migraines I would get bad headaches nearly every day.  This has pretty much stopped but am still getting my migraines ( I wasn't expecting it to get rid of them).
I will continue along with my gluten free life as it has made me feel a lot better and given me more energy and will post recipes that I find along the way which are simple yet yummy.  Most of the recipes I find are American which is a bit annoying with measurements and names different to Australian.

2 comments:

  1. I have heard a lot about people going gluten free...but what is gluten and why does it cause so many issues?

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    1. It is a binding agent in food and apparently it is in a lot of food. You could think of it like a glue that holds everything together. Apparently there are a lot of gluten intolerant people that don't even know they are.

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